Goods and Services

🌍Mission Brief #2

Goods are things you can touch, like a ball or a book.

🎯 Your mission

Trade-offs everywhere — find them.

⚡ The twist

Cheap for you usually means expensive for someone else.

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Mind = Blown

🤯 The first ATM was installed in 1967 — and used radioactive ink.

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Then & Now

💱 This is happening in your local store every single day.

Goods are things you can touch, like a ball or a book. Services are things people do for you, like a haircut or a doctor's visit.

Key Facts

Producers make things; consumers buy them.

Every choice means giving up something else.

Needs are different from wants.

Check Your Understanding

Question 1

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What are goods?

How sure are you going to be?😐 maybe

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Why this still matters

The next time you spend $1, ask: who else benefited besides you?

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Stretch Challenge

Try this in real life this week.

Find two products that look similar but cost very different. Why?

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For the dinner table

“If you had $20 to start a business, what would you sell?”

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